I’ll tell you a secret you might have missed.

It’s not about the privacy.

It’s about a foreign country of similar power levels having the ability to shape your people’s political opinions.

They’re shitting themselves because it’s one of the first times it’s happened to them instead of them doing it to someone else.

The key difference is that American Government agencies don't have access to the information TikTok steals from its users.

Edit: This comment implied the US has easy access to the data from companies like Facebook.

America is guilty of everything Americans accuse China about.

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Has everyone forgotten when Zuck was brought before congress and grilled about Facebook? True, the reps merely embarrassed themselves through their own ignorance, but being ineffectual is not the same as hypocracy.

Both are bad.

Can't we just say that both are bad?

I remember articles in the early 00s about how China wouldn't allow Google to operate there and a big deal was made about "the great firewall of China" and how it was all about censorship, but now that China has an influential internet service, US congress is demanding they hand over ownership of US operations to a US company.

It's like picking on a younger sibling.

It's okay when you, the older sibling, do it. But when a stranger does it, you kick their ass.

So many people here who don't understand why people are able to criticize more than one country be like:

A: "Tell me the difference between these pictures:" || xor

B: "They are the same"

Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos) 'strange, foreign, alien', and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

Now do American politicians when an elementary school is attacked by a gunman.

@Veedems If our freedom we wanna keep. Facebook, Microsoft, BP, Nestlé, and Google we have to kill.

its almost like foreign governments collecting information about your population is a bad thing for your people and your government, or something.